A CS professor once explained recursion as follows: A child couldn't sleep, so her mother told her a story about a little frog, who couldn't sleep, so the frog's mother told her a story about a little bear, who couldn't sleep, so the bear's mother told her a story about a little weasel... who fell asleep. ...and the little bear fell asleep; ...and the little frog fell asleep; ...and the child fell asleep. -- everything2.com

J'ai toujours préféré la folie des passions à la sagesse de l'indifférence. -- Anatole France

Any sufficiently advanced technology is undistinguishable from magic. -- Arthur C. Clarke

I think that a lot of programmers are ignoring an important point when people talk about reducing code repetition on large projects. Part of the idea is that large projects are intrinsically *wrong*. That you should be looking at making a number of smaller projects that are composable, even if you never end up reusing one of those smaller projects elsewhere. -- Dan Nugent

If Java had true garbage collection, most programs would delete themselves upon execution. -- Robert Sewell

We really have to get over the idea that some stuff is just worth knowing even if you never do anything with it. Human memories happily erase stuff that has no purpose, so why try to fill up children's heads with such stuff? -- Roger Schank, Engines for Education

Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value. –Albert Einstein

Successful entrepreneurs are givers and not takers of positive energy. ~Anonymous

If you don’t design your own life plan, chances are you’ll fall into someone else’s plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much. ~ Jim Rohn

Real difficulties can be overcome; it is only the imaginary ones that are unconquerable. ~Theodore N. Vail